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ReviewBriefings in bioinformatics2024

Surveying biomedical relation extraction: a critical examination of current datasets and the proposal of a new resource.

Ming-Siang Huang, Jen-Chieh Han, Pei-Yen Lin, Yu-Ting You, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Wen-Lian Hsu

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Review in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Role of N-ary Relations in Representing Biomedical Complexity.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  2. LitTx: A New Treatment Relation Extraction Dataset.LREC ... International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation : [proceedings]. International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Ming-Siang HuangIntelligent Agent Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Jen-Chieh HanIntelligent Information Service Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Pei-Yen LinIntelligent Agent Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Yu-Ting YouIntelligent Agent Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Richard Tzong-Han TsaiIntelligent Information Service Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0003-0513-107X
Wen-Lian HsuIntelligent Agent Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, New Taipei City, Taiwan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural language processing (NLP) has become an essential technique in various fields, offering a wide range of possibilities for analyzing data and developing diverse NLP tasks. In the biomedical domain, understanding the complex relationships between compounds and proteins is critical, especially in the context of signal transduction and biochemical pathways. Among these relationships, protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are of particular interest, given their potential to trigger a variety of biological reactions. To improve the ability to predict PPI events, we propose the protein event detection dataset (PEDD), which comprises 6823 abstracts, 39 488 sentences and 182 937 gene pairs. Our PEDD dataset has been utilized in the AI CUP Biomedical Paper Analysis competition, where systems are challenged to predict 12 different relation types. In this paper, we review the state-of-the-art relation extraction research and provide an overview of the PEDD's compilation process. Furthermore, we present the results of the PPI extraction competition and evaluate several language models' performances on the PEDD. This paper's outcomes will provide a valuable roadmap for future studies on protein event detection in NLP. By addressing this critical challenge, we hope to enable breakthroughs in drug discovery and enhance our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying various diseases.

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Drug DiscoveryNatural Language ProcessingSignal Transductionnatural language processingprotein–protein interactionrelation extraction

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PMID38609331
PMCPMC11014787

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